My JPop year 2019

2019 was overall a great year for me and music definitly played a big part in it, I have to admit though that I listend to a lot of other music besides jpop. Most of my playlist is still japanese music but a lot of english, some korean, some chinese and some thai music found it's way on my playlist and there were some I badly love and played on repeat for weeks. Let's go in detail with what I liked best this year when it comes to japanese music. The start is a list of the songs I absolutly loved that have been released this year.

Battel Boys Osaka - Kimi no Tame ni

Battle Boys Fukuoka - 1000 km (this is by far my favorite Battle Boys song ever)

Shimizu Shota - Sorry

Shimizu Shota - Breath Again

Amezari Red Stars - with my step

Amezari Red Start - Maboroshi no Daichi

Amezari Red Stars - Be Alright (couldn't find it online)

Edamame Beans - Stop That Girl

SIRUP - Eien (towa) ni (sadly I couldn't find this online but if you have the chance please listen to it, it's so freakin' good, much better then the originial!!)

Color Creation - Mimoza

EBiDAN - New Day! New Wave!

DJ Hasebe feat. SALU & SIRUP - Midnight Dreamin'

ONE N' ONLY - Category

ONE N' ONLY - Pop! Pop!

3WAG - Make Up

Super Dragon - Don't Let Me Down

Super Dragon - Jacket

Super Dragon - My Playlist

Super Dragon - La Vida Loca

I don't like mondays. - DIAMOND

UNIONE - Amante

Rude-a - It's Only Love

KO from SF9 (10JinActor) - Nagasaki wa Kyou mo Ame datta

iri - Wonderland

Chotokkyu - Before Dawn

SIRUP - Evergreen

WILYWNKA feat. SIRUP - Stay

Of course these are not the only songs I loved the most this year, there have been a few albums I enjoyed pretty much all songs of, so I listed them extra. I did write a little about the album but I didn't link every single song but I did add a spotify link to the albums.

HARUMI - MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Listen to on Spotify

I wrote about this album before. I really love all the song on this so freakin' much. Her voice is super powerful and strong and she delivers the emotions in some of the songs so well. My absolute favorites are "Don't Break My Heart" and "DARE ME" but all the songs are so good. For only 5 songs this 'mini' album also has a good mix of songs. Absolutly recommended!!

_PRIZMAX_ - FRNKSTN

Listen to on Spotify

DANCE was the first song of this album that got uploaded to youtube. I loved it right away, thought now it's my least favorite song on the album. I honestly didn't knew what to expect of this album with the new members. I was so supprised that this is such a good album. All the songs are freakin' amazing up beat songs fully sung in english. By the way my absolute favorite of them is "WHO".

Mukai Taichi - 27; Mukai Taichi - Savage

Listen to 27 on Spotify

Listen to Savage on Spotify

I am a huge fan of Mukai Taichi. Not only is his voice really beautiful but I tend to really enjoy the style of his music. As you can see he released two albums this year. I would consider '27' to be a mini album since it has only 7 songs, thought Savage has only 11 songs as well. However what is most important is the music and guys you have to listen to this if you liked any of his music before. 

I recommend all of the songs but it seems like I listend to ICBU and I very much recommend I Like it, thought honestly if you have some time do listen to all of his music, maybe you will love it as much as I do.

Sakudara Dori - Sakura da Festa BEST

Listen to it on Spotify

Whenever I think about listening to this album I am like, naaahh this wasn't that good but then I listen to it and I love it so much each time. I don't know why I always think this way, maybe because Sakurada Dori will always be more of an actor then a singer to me or maybe a little bit because this cover looks so not like an album cover. However that doesn't matter because the songs on this album are amazing and I love that the style of music is very versatile. You will get everything from a slow songs, to a rock songs, to a song that gives happy summer vibes, to a badass song and more. I can't even name a favorite this time, I love the songs equally. 

Super Dragon - 2nd Emotion

Listen to it on Spotify

This is probably the album I listened to the most this year. After I went to two of their concerts of the Emotions tour back in March, I couldn't stop replaying this album for a long time. The songs on this album are seriously so good. My number one being 'Paya Paya' also because I love the dance but all the others are so damn good too. I even love the remixes and I uselly don't like remixes a lot. If you haven't listend to it, you should do it soon.

AKLO - REGULAR

Listen to it on Spotify

I was so excited when AKLO announced to finally release a new album this year. I dig his three albums he released before as well as the collaboration album with Jay'ed so much. To be honest it took me a little to fully appreciate this album but I do now and if you like Rap you will love this as well, thought I would always recommend his older work more over this one. It's a great album anyway. My favorites are definitly 'Addicted' and 'WFN'.

INTERSECTION - INTERSECTION

Listen to it on Spotify

I love these guys music since they released their debut song 'Heart of Gold'. They have the typical boy group sound, with some nice voices and addicting beats. I love singing along to their songs. When this got released I didn't expect to like all the songs on the album but I was so wrong. Each and every song on this got me so bad. All songs have this super addicting part that makes you want to sing along so bad and you will get them stuck in your head many times. Absolutly recommended!

Chanmina - Never Grow Up

Listen to it on Spotify

If you like her music and style you will most likely love this album too. I especially love 'Call', 'Never Grow Up' and 'Like This'. To be fair I don't love all the songs on this album but most of them are really good so I decided to post it under the albums too. 

DEVIL NO ID - Devillmatic

Listen to it on Spotify

This album is so different to what I usually listen to. This whole album feels so messy but it works so well as a whole and even though all the songs have their specific sound it doesn't feel like one is sticking out more then the others. I don't know how to explain the music these three girls created. I just now I very much enjoy it! Give it a try if you haven't listend to any of their songs and if you might not like a song try out another one because they are quite different from each other. By the way I do love all the songs on this album.

Besides the new songs my new discovery of this year is "Official Hige Dandizumu". They are an indie rock group and their music is amazing. I bought three of their albums on itunes and so far I do enjoy them a lot. Another group I discoverd is "Novelbright", gosh they are awesome too, they are also an indie rock group. Besides these two I got very much into the group "NORD". I don't like all of their music, some is just too messy for me but I love some of their songs badly, especially the song 'Mirai'. Then I got more into the music of "CUBERS", I don't think the songs are super outstanding but they are really nice listening to and whenever a song of them get's played when I use the shuffle mode, I am very plesantly supprised to see it's on of their songs.

What are your favorites of 2019? Did you discover any groups you didn't knew before?

BATTLE BOYS OKINAWA profiles

The next BATTLE BOYS region is Okinawa. The group has only 4 members right now, the 5th one on this picture is Joshua (2nd from left side), he is a BATTLE KiDS member and therfor not featured in this post but most of the time he performs together with the BATTLE BOYS OKINAWA members. 

Setsura graduated from BMK

On July 7th Kitagawa Setsura graduated from Boys And Men Kenkyusei. It was a very sudden announcement that has been done on an fan event, leaving many fans in shock. It seems he wants to keep doing music just in a different way. More hasn't been announced.

It makes me really sad seeing him leaving the group since he was a very important part of it (like each member is). It feels like a part of them is missing now. However I do support him no matter what and I hope that he will achiev his goal, whatever that may be. 

As for BMK I still love them lot's and even though I will miss Setusra, my support for the group won't get less. I honestly hope that they will debut in the near future. All five of them deserve it so much! At least here is the new 5 member profile picture of BMK.

On a side note I have to mention that I love Sotas new hairstyle, the streight-side-cut looks so good on him!

Starmen KiDS to release 3rd mini album

EBiDAN group "StarmenKiDS" announced to release their third mini album on November 26th. The album will be titled "Sutachu~" and once again there will be three diffirent version of the album. So far there is no information about the tracklist and we still have to wait for the covers to be shown. However they did upload a little teaser of the main track "Chugakusei nau" already. Check it out.

I love the song once again and I am very much looking forward to this third album since so far I liked their releases a lot all the time. 

BATTLE BOYS FUKUOKA profiles

Next part is Fukuoka. They are still pretty small but gaining more and more popularity. Their most popular member is Sakutaro but all the other members are lovable too. Definitly check them out.

Check out EBiDANs new song "New Day! New Wave!"

At the EBiDAN The Live 2019 they introduced a new EBiDAN song to the audience. Today they uploaded a video of the live performance. I like the song, it's again a very uplifting song with a great message and I love seeing all my favorite groups performing this together. Another plus for me is that I actually went to this years EBiDAN The Live and watching this gets me all excited once again.

The best thing however is that it's now availible on itunes and spotify as well because in the beginning they only released it on HMV music.

What do you guys think about the new song?

BATTLE BOYS SENDAI profiles

With this post we are half through with the Battle Boys region groups. Sendai is one of the more popular region groups, which might be thanks to former members Ryubi, who is a member of M!LK, and Kousaku, who is a member of "Genin wa Jibun ni Aru". However the still undebuted members of Sendai are not less popular. In the Battle Boys ranking both Haruma and Shuto always rank very high. Check out their profiles.

BATTLE BOYS OSAKA profiles

So here comes part two and this time I am writing the profiles for the Osaka members. Osaka is the most popular Battle Boys group right now. At the Challenge Stage they won more than obvious. There is many lovable people in Osaka so please check out the members.

Let's Start!

Knight graduating from ZeBRA☆STAR

On August 17th this year Knight officially graduated from the group ZeBRA☆STAR. He was a part of both units, ZeBRA☆RED and ZeBRA☆BLACK. The reason he graduated is that he will study overseas. Pretty much all the members wrote blog posts about the event and all of them felt very supportive and thankful towards Knight. I think he has been an important part of the group being a little bit like glue between the two units. It's no supprise that the members and Knight himself were sad about him leaving but I am sure he has a bright future ahead and I wish him all the best.

I am also looking forward to what the future brings for ZeBRA☆STAR. I am pretty excited about the third single which will be released on September 14th. 

At least another picture of the graduation.

BATTLE BOYS TOKYO profiles

BATTLE KiDS are not included in this post!!

Hey everyone I decided to make a post with small profiles for all Battle Boys, thought just the ones that are listed on their official website because if they are not, I am not sure if they are really still with EBiDAN or a Battle Boys member. For now these profiles will only be very short but I hope to get more information together for each member. Besides that I decided to do an own post for each region because this post would be too long otherwise and I think it's nice to actually know who belongs to which region. If there is anything you would add or want to know please write a comment under this post or pm me on Instagram or Twitter (AngiSnowflake).

Let's Start!

SELLOUT to release 4th single

SELLOUT will release their 4th single on September 24th. The single will be availible at Tower Records, even at their online store (which made it possible for me to actually pre-order the single). The single is called "Tomomi Ayumu Michi" and will come in two versions. Version A comes with the b-side track "Change" and version B with the b-side track "Hot Shot".

They already released a music video for the new song. Please check it out.

I think the video turned out really good and I love the song a lot. I really like how the voice of Ranma and Shohei compliment each other. Definitly a great new release and a good sign that Ranma was the best choice for joining them after Neo left.

How I fell deeply in love with AMEZARI!! aka Fan Report: AMEZARI -Red Stars- Rowan & Ayumu Okaeri (welcome home) Event

takken from their official twitter account

I always had a thing for Hibiki even when AMEZARI or before that "EBiKAN" and later"American Zarigani" still weren't excisting. He always got my attention. So when I went to Japan this year in March and they announced to hold a free mini live on March 23rd, I knew I had to go there. I even changed up my plans to be able to go there and guys I am so glad I did it. This was an amazing experience that I don't want to miss anymore. But let's start.

takken from their official twitter account

The event was held a TSUTAYA EBISUBASHI and before it opend around 12:30pm you were able to buy merch and get special tickets. I was actuelly way too early but I couldn't find the entrance, since it was a staircase on the side, and there wasn't any sign and the staff of the Tsutaya couldn't help me at all too. Therefor I was a little too late and all the really good tickets for the event have already been gone. However in the end I still had a good standing place und could see them very well.
But first of here is what I bought.

As you can see I bought their t-shirt, which I dearly love the design of, their AMEZARI RED BOOKS and photos. As you might already know I love photos but in this case the main reason I bought them was because if you bought three sets you got two photo tickets. Also as you might see some of the photos came with actual signs of the members. I got three in total, one of Jay, Rowan and Ayumu. As for the book you can see that it has a sign on it as well. That sign wasn't on the book when buying it, you got a ticket for that as well, so you were able to choose whose autograph you want to have on the book. Here is what these tickets looked like.

If you can read a little bit of japanese you can see that I bought two tickets for a groupshot and one with only Hibiki.
After all the buying we had to wait a little until the actual event started and it also started at a different place but this time I directly found it. So this event was a special one because it celebrated the comeback of Rowan and Ayumu. They both have been absent from activities of the group for a few month and on that day was their first event as seven members again.
Since you weren't allowed to take any pictures while the event was held, I can only tell you what I do remember.
They started the event with the song "with my step", which became my favorite song of them after this. I love this song a lot and Rowan looked so cool an handsome performing this song. I mean all did but since he is the main performer of this song, he really stood out. After that they all introduced each other and did some talk and they performed more songs. I can never remember what songs it were, I guess because I was just too excited watching them. Here are some impressions I do remember very well.

*They all had a solo live, that was so awesome.
*Shion was interacting with the fans a lot through his solo, that was super lovely.
*Hibiki looked so nervous with his performance, often looking down and fondling on his clothes, waaaaaaahhhhh so cute!!!!
*Yori has such a beautiful voice, I didn't expect that becaus he is not one of the main vocalists.
*And gosh damn it they are such great dancer and this whole time looked like they had so much fun on stage. I loved seeing them perform.
*The last song they performed was ZARIGANI DANCE and it was such a great performance.

After the mini live the part with photos, signs etc. hold place. At first was the handshake event, after that the sign of the new EBiDAN magazine, then the RED BOOK sign and at least first the group shots and after that the solo shots.
Because I had to wait quite a while, I basicly just observed all the excited fans as well as the members. At one point Hibiki and Andy waved in my direction and I was so shy I looked away.  I guess my head turned bright red as well. I am really not good with dealing with such situations but I still love them anyway.
So when the sign for the RED BOOK finally started I directly went to Hibikis place. I was so excited and smiled brightly. He asked me in english if I am from Germany and was like "yes... how do you know?". Then he tried to explain me that his manager or someone of their stuff, I am really not sure, saw that I tweeted that I will go to the event. I was really happy they knew I was going there.
After that I had to wait again but not for long. As you know I got two group shots and while I actually don't like to put pictures of me on here, here is one of the pictures.

All of the members were so cute and lovely, especially Andy tried to speak english and well Rowan and Jay do speak english fluently but because I kind of rushed (I am to much of a shy person to take my time) I didn't really speak much with them. If I get a chance like this again I want to take a solo picture with each member and I will think about some cool poses because the poses I did were so lame.... Anyway I enjoyed this so so so so so so.... much! It's one of my all time favorite memories.
After the group shots I had to wait until I could take a picture with Hibiki. In between I talked with some very cute fans. One man asked me if I liked Hibiki the most and later he came to me and gave me a signed picture of Hibiki as a present.

That was so nice and cute and I am so thankful to him. I wish I could have given him something as well. After I took the solo picture with Hibiki, which is my dear treasure now, I said goodbye to the fans I had met and went back to my hotel, grinning the rest of the day.

Just thinking about this event get's me fangirling again. While I did mostly love Hibiki before the event I started to love all of the other member as well after this event. They were so cute and friendly and adorable and and and I just love them. I do hope to go to a live event of them again when I am in Japan in August.

Is there anyone who likes them a lot too? If yes who is your favorite member?

AMEZARI -Red Stars- released 2nd music video

It's here!!! I am super excited for this and so happy they finally released a 2nd music video. The video is for their song "Maboroshi no Daichi", which is not a new song but one of their popular songs they haven't released on cd jet. I guess this means that it will be on the 3rd album that will come out on July 13. That also gives me hope that "with my step" will also finally be released on cd, since it is also an older but popular song. 

However I do love "Maboroshi no Daichi". It's a fun and cute song that I always enjoyed watching them perform and I am happy they released a music video for it. The video is done so well. They all look really handsome and cute. Some of the shots are being so nice, I always fangirl over them watching the video. Like that scene of Shion standing in the door and looking up, waaahhhh that's so handsome. And basicly all scenes of Yori because he looks so cute e.g. while listening to music and looking like he is daydreaming. Of course I LOVE all the scenes of Hibiki too, I mean he is my bias, how could I not. He is such a sunshine to me because whenever I see him my world get's brighter. That was cheesy but it's true! Rowan looks so cool in all the scenes and Andy is upper cute and super handsome too, I love seeing him playing the guitar together with Ayumu, besides Ayumu is so lovely in this video as well. At least Jay is flawless like always. His performance is great and he has such a great aura to him. I like that he always looks so self-confident and everything he does feels so natural. I love these guys so much and I am so extremly proud of them and I hope they are proud about themselves too. 

What do you think about the video?

My favorite japanese songs at the moment

Today I wanna share some songs with you that I recently love to listen too. I love repeating them and definitly recommend them to all you Jpop lovers out there. 

[HARUMI - Don't Break My Heart]

I am very much in love with Harumi's voice and her english is really good too. I bought her mini album on the japanese iTunes and I love the whole album. All of her song on this are amazing. She really is one talanted young woman and if you like artists like RiRi you will like her too.

[BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE - Tenhane 1000%]



Ballistik Boyz did an stunning debut with this. I LOVE the song SO much and the video is so extremly nice too. Their dancing is lit!! To be honest I wasn't looking forward to this debut because I am mostly a Gene and Rampage fan but this really flashed me. Now I am looking forward to the mini album they will release in a few days.


[Gingadan - BURN!!]



Just recently I was finally able to buy this song through the japanese itunes so I am finally able to listen to this song A LOT whenever I feel like it. I still love this song a lot and to be honest I would love to see these guys release a new song. I know one of the main vocalists left so maybe that's why they don't realease anything at the moment. I do hope they will release more.


[WILYWNKA - Stay feat. SIRUP]



That song is so addicting to me. Sometimes I keep this song on repeat for more than an hour. I love the flow of this song a lot, the rap is super nice and of course SIRUPs super beautiful voice. This whole songs is perfect.


[YOSA & TAAR - Fever feat. SIRUP]



Another awesome song featuring SIRUP, thought in this song he is the only vocalist. YOSA & TAAR are DJs and produced this song, thought the lyrics have been written be SIRUP. This song is once again super addicting and I can repeat it for quite a while before I get the feeling that I want to listen to something else.


[BATTLE BOYS - With you With me]



First of it's awesome that Battle Boys finally released an actual music video. I love the video, it's a little fast sometimes but they are doing so well, the dance is super cute and they all look so handsome and cute. However I also like the song A LOT. The refrain is quite addictive and I enjoy listening to it a lot.


[Valentines - Break Into The Dark feat. RUI & Afro Jack]



I love this song a lot since back when I heard it the first time in a teaser for the 3rd High & Low movie. I don't know who exactly is Valentine and never heard anythingelse of him. However this song is so extremly beautiful and I love listening to it.


[Yamashita Tomohisa - You Make Me]



Last week I recieved the latest album of YamaP which has "You Make Me" on it and since I recieved the album I am listening to this song a lot. The album is pretty good in generall but this song is by far my favorite on it. I love that it's such an easy going song.


These are the few songs I am quite addicted to at the moment, thought of course there is more.
Do you like any of these song as well?

SIRUP released music video for "Evergreen"

I am so much in love with this artists. SIRUP has a freakin' beautiful voice and his songs are awesome most of the time. Evergreen is once again a super smooth and so extremly nice listening to song. I am having this on repeat for a while already. The video is pretty simple and nothing have to watch again and again, thought it nice watching him sing the song because it reminds me of seeing him live.
Evergreen is one of the new songs of his first album that will be released on May 29th. I am SO much looking forward to this album.

What do you think about the song?

{A 1st Impression of} NORD

NORD is a 7 member boy group from Sapporo. They released their first cd in december 2016. Back then they were still 8 members. However somewhere between end 2017 and beginning 2018 the member with the color "dark blue" left the group. I don't know his name nor do I know why he left. This left the group with the 7 members they are now, thought Nagasaki Yusuke was on hiatus for a few singles and that's also the reason he is not staring in their recently released live dvd.

I first got to know them because they were futured in a magazine I own but I wasn't really interessted in them so I didn't check them out. The reason I finally checked them out is a project group called "Love Harmony, Inc." which futures artists of different groups as well as solo artists. Shima Taisei is one of the artists in this group and his voice is very beautiful so I wanted to check out the group he is in and that happend to be NORD. 

So I watched the music videos they released so far and damn these guys are really cute and I really like the music, most of the time it's fun music that get's you in a good mood. Here are the videos of them you can find online.

"Boku = Kimi Heart Catch" is definitly my favorite song of them. It's so cute und so much fun to listen too and the video is freakin adorable. I love watching them being all dorky.

Starlit Sky is their most recent single. You can get nearly all of their music on iTunes. Their first 2 releases (the EP "NORD" and the single "Hajimarisuto") however are only availible on the japanese iTunes. If you have the chance to buy those two as well, I recomend doing so because there are some nice songs on them, my favorite one happens to be "Mirai".

Here are the members and their short profiles.

Takeru Funaki

Birthday：August 10th 2001 (OMG WHAT!!! He doesn't look so young!! XD)

Hometown：Sapporo

Height：180cm

Hobbies：Dance(Jazz, HipHop), Acting, Games, Guitar

Yusuke Nagasaki

Birthday：May 9th 1994
Hometown：Sapporo
Height：170cm

Hobbies：Snow Boarding

Ryota Hanaoka

Birthday：August 22nd 1995

Hometown：札幌市

Height：170cm

Hobbies：Songs, Driving, Sports

Takushiro Anbo

Birthday：April 8th 1997

Hometown：Sapporo

Height：178cm

Hobbies：Soccer, Manga, Listening to Music

Raia Edamoto

Birthday：June 5th 1999

Hometown：Sapporo

Height：180cm

Hobbies：Japanese Drums

Taisei Shima

Birthday：January 29th 1998

Homwtown：Fukagawa

Height：177cm

Hobbies：Karaoke

Hikaru Takihara

Bithday：June 12th 1997

Hometown：Sapporo

Height：167cm

Hobbies：baseball, singing when alone, listening to music

So far I think they are all kind of cute and my favorites so far happen to be Hikaru and Taisei. However since I just got into them my favorites might change pretty fast. 

They also have a youtube channel on which they upload videos of them doing all kind of things. It looks pretty funny but I haven't taken a serious look at these jet. If you might got interessted in them, here are all the links to their social media sites and the like.

Official Website

Twitter

Youtube

The members all have Instagram and Twitter, you can find the link on their website under profile.

So far I really like this group. The members seem cute und fun and the what I listend to of their music until now sounds pretty good. They have a new fan now.

What do you guys think? Do you like what you see and hear?

Fan Report: SUPER★DRAGON 7th ONEMAN LIVE TOUR『Emotions』in Fukuoka

On March 21st was the first live of  SUPER★DRAGONs "Emotions" tour. It was held at Zepp Fukuoka, which is in a shopping center near the Yahuoku Dome, a giant baseball stadium. Because I wanted to buy some merch I decided to go there early. The merch sale was to start around 1pm but I went there at around 11am because I know that japanese people like to line up for things like this and if you come late, some stuff might be sold out already. 

You might think I am crazy for going there 2 hours earlier but guys I am so glad I did. When I arrived at the venue there were a lot of people already waiting in line. It was crazy. So I basicly was waiting these two hours until it started but that didn't mean that I didn't have to wait anymore. They always had only a few people go to buy merch and when these were finished new people were allowed to go. So after around 2 1/2 hours I finally went in to buy merch. You had to show your ticket for the day to buy the merch, so you couldn't buy it if you didn't had a ticket. Here is the list of their merch. 

I bought the t-shirt, parker, the photo album and the key holder which is not on this picture. And then they had two kinds of photo sets. One with always two members together and another set with solo and group pictures. These sets always cost 1000yen and have 5 random photos per pack. I love those pictures so I bought a whole lot of them. I spend way too much money on them. Here is a picture of what I got, thought I didn't took a pitcure of all the photos I bought... that would be too much but I can make an extra post if you would like to see them.

Sometimes when you were lucky you get a signed picture in these sets. There is not a lot of signed pictures but I was lucky to actually get two. I got a signed one of Koki and a signed one of Jean and Tsuyoshi. 

I saw fan buying so many set's but they still didn't got a signed photo. I felt sad for them. However it was also cute that some of them screamed out of joy when they got a signed picture. I called my mom after buying the merch and while we were talking she could here the screams. She thought it was so funny. However I feel like showing you my favorite picture too.

Isn't this such a freakin' cute picture!!! I mean look at that smile of Tsuyoshi and the others looking so cute too. 

By the way I lost the key holder pretty much right after buying it and I was so sad. I even tried to buy it again but it was sold out by then. However when I went there again after the concert, to buy the new EBiDAN magazine, the staff told me that I forgot to take it with me when I bought it. So she gave it to me and I was soooooooo happy. That's the great thing about being pretty much the only foreigner at a concert. You will definitly be recognized. XD

SO, the concert started around 5:30 pm but you were supposed to line up ahead, according to the number of your ticket. I had number 1003 and the line only went to 1400. So it wasn't that great of a number. I was really worried that I woudn't be able to see much but when I entered the venue I saw that many people that had a better ticket, actually went to the back of the place so there was some free space in the middle. I was still pretty much in the back but I had a great view and could see all the members faces very clearly. 

By the way, just in case anyone of you will ever go to a concert at any Zepp, please have in mind that you have to pay an additional 500 yen at the entrance. You get a drink for free with the coin they give you for the 500 yen, however a 500 yen coca cola isn't really cheap. >-<

So the concert started a little after 5:30 pm. They first had some kind of laser light show, which showed all the members names, one after the other and the first song the performed had a laser show in it too. I didn't like it too much because you couldn't really see the members. There was just too much light. Oh by the way the first song the peformed was LRL - left right left -. At the second performance they used flashlights while dancing and again I wasn't the biggest fan because once again I couldn't see them well because of all the light. However the third song was PayaPaya, my favorite song and starting from there, the heavy use of light stopped. I enjoyed this whole concert so much. Their vocals were SO good and their dancing incredible. They did a little introduction talk, introducing the members and talking a very little bit, then there was a talking part of just Fire Dragon (Tsuyoshi, Reo, Hayate and Jean) and only one more talking part at the end. In generell this concert was very short. It went on for only an hour if you count in the encore maybe 1 hour and 20 min. When Tsuyoshi told us the next song will be the last one I was super confussed because their concerts have always been longer then just an hour. 

That's the only thing I was a little disappointed about. However all in one I enjoyed this concert a lot. Like I wrote earlier, their dancing and singing was really good and the small talking parts were really cute too. To be honest while watching them perform I realized once again how much I love their music. They released so many extremly good songs already. 

I did went to their live in Namba on the next day too but I am think about writing an extra blog about this. Let's finish this blog with the picture they took on that day (I got it from the twitter account).

The thought that I am somewhere on the picture is pretty awesome. 

Did you ever went to an concert of them?

ONE N' ONLY released MV for POP! POP! (and I am so much in love)

Yesterday the EBiSSH x Satori Shonen Dan project group ONE N' ONLY released a music video for their new singles b-side track "POP! POP!". Guys I am so in love with the song I like it so much better then their a-side track "Dark Knight". This is such a smooth and nice song. Tetta's and Eiku's vocals are so freaking nice. Especially Eiku is killing me with his vocals. The rap parts however are so extremly nice and smooth too. The video is pretty much giving me the rest. The boys looking so good and cute and the whole video has such nice and soft colors. It's a simple but lovely video that suites to this song so much. Definitly check it out.

What do you think about it?

Fan Report: Takahashi Fu In-Store Mini Live + High-Touch + Talk Event

I first posted this on JPop Amino but decided to post it here as well, also I did change the text a little and added some more info.

On the March 19th 2019 I went to an mini live of Takahashi Fu. For everyone who doesn’t know him, he was a Johnny’s Jr. and after he left, a part of the group ANTIME (which is on hiatus at the moment).

On March 20th, so one day later, was the release of his 2nd mini album “Step”. Like many artists in Japan he hold many free mini lives around Japan to promote the cd.

Like I wrote before one of these were on the 19.03.2019 at the Tower Records in Shinjuku.

As you can see above the stage is always pretty small but since he is a solo artist it’s not too bad. However I want to talk about what you had to do first because it’s often similar and might help some people if they want to go to such an event and like me do only speak a little bit Japanese.

The event was scheduled to start at 19:00, however you needed to get a ticket first. To get a ticket you had to buy his new cd and depending on which version you got, you also received an extra ticket for a photo or for a high-touch and talk.

The awesome thing is that you could buy the cd before the actual release day and of course these extra tickets are awesome as well.

I bought both versions so I got a ticket for both, on the following picture is only the ticket for the priority entrance. I will show you what the other tickets looked like on another picture.

To be honest I first didn't found his cd in the store... thought it was actueally right in front of the cashier but because I didn't saw it I asked a girl standing in line and she showed me. 

We started to talk a little. She was a huge fan of Takahashi Fu and even bought him some kind of leisure suit as a present. She was really lovely and stayed with me a lot. 

Starting around 18:00 you could wait in line to get a numbered priority ticket, with the ticket you can see on the picture above. After we bought the cd's we looked up where the line is going to be but both of us were pretty confussed because we weren't sure where exactly it's going to be. 

However we finally found the spot and therefor were one of the firsts in line, thought there haven't been too many people who went to this event. Around 18:30 we went to draw a random numbered ticket, that showed the order in which we can enter the venue.

As you can see I got really lucky and drew number 9. So I was right at the front of the stage. We were allowed to enter the event space at 19:00. Before the event started I went around the Tower Records and looked up if I can find the EBiDAN corner and yay I found it. I bought the new DISH// live dvd as well a magazine called "MONOTONE CLASSY BOYS" (it's a special issue of BOYS FILE).

When the live started Takahashi Fu directly started to sing one of his songs. In total he performed 6 songs. In between and at the end he talked a little but not much. His performance was cute.

His voice is really pretty but sometimes he pushed his voice a little too hard. Also the music system wasn’t the best but I personally still really enjoyed his performance.

He was so cute and tried to have eye contact with all his fans. That made him even more lovable.

At the end he said thank you for supporting him, he even had some tears in his eyes.

Right after the live the photo part started. If you got a ticket you could take a picture of him. I think it’s weird that you could only take a picture of him and not with him. That’s what usually happens at events like these.

However it’s still a cute picture.

After this ended there was the talk and high-Touch event.

These feel so awkward to me all the time... but I guess that’s just me. I never know what to talk about and then my Japanese is pretty bad too...

However it was ok to talk in English, and basically I just told him that I like his voice and that he did well with performing. Then we did the high-touch and I left. Thought the high-touch was more like holding hands, which got me blushing and that made the situation even more akward. 

I actually had to leave in a hurry because I had to drive back to Narita to get the last shuttle bus of my hotel.

At least I want to say that this was a great experience. I love these small events because the fans are usually much more open. Quite a few people tried talking to me. It was lovely.

(Side Note: I have to study more Japanese...)

I also love to see how dedicated some of these fans are. The girl I met there was so excited about meeting Takahashi Fua and it's awesome she even bought him clothes as a present. She really was a cute person. All in one I am happy I went to this event, even thought it was kinde stressful for me because my hotel was so far away from Shinjuku but it was still worth it.

Also please support him if you can. His new mini album is available on iTunes as well.